Embossing-press



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO J. C. MEBRIAM AND W. N. WEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EMBOSSING-PRESS.

M-Spociiication forming` part of Letters Patent N0. 56,244, dated July 10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN C. MEERIAM and WILLIAM N. WEEDEN, of Boston, in the county of Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful Improvement in Seal or Embossing Presses; and we do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of it.

In this press, A is the stamping or movable die, and B the reverse or bed die, each die being iixed to one of two arms, G D. The arm D, at its rear end, hasa standard, E, extending upward from it, and serving to support a guide arm, F, which is projected from the standard toward the dies and over and parallel with the arm D, and so that there may be a space, G, between the two, such space being for the reception of a sheet of paper when resting on the lower die.

The guide-arm Fis channeled lengthwise to receive both the arm C of the stamping-die and a spring', a, for effecting the elevation of the said arm O. The sides of the channel ot' the guide arm are vertical and parallel, or thereabout, and receive and sustain the center pin, b, which goes through them and the arm C, and connects such arm with the standard, the arm G being so applied to the pin as to be capable of turning freely thereon, so as to enable the movable die to be moved either toward or away from the lower die.

Four adjusting and guide screws, c c d d, are screwed into the opposite sides of the channeled guide-arm and against the arm 0,-their arrangement being as represented in Figs. l and 2. They serve to adjust the arm C so as to bring its stamping-die into due relation with respect to the reverse diethat is, so that the projections of the one may enter the corresponding concavities of the other when the two dies are closed together. The screws admit of the vertical movements of the arm C, and act as guides to it. The guide-arm affords support to the stamping-die arm near to the dies, so as to prevent the upper die from being swerved laterally out of its correct alignment with the lower die, which is apt to be when the movable diearm or carrier is supported only by a joint on the standard. It is all important to keep the two dies in their proper alignment, otherwise one would be very likely to injure or destroy the other on the two being forcibly closed together by a blow of the hand of a person directed on the head H of the upper die.

One great advantage of our improvement is, that it enables a good operative press to be made at little or no expenditure of labor in tiling up and preparing its guidesurfaces; and, furthermore, it admits ofthe two dies being readily properly adjusted and kept so with respect to each other. Besides, the press, when made, is a very compact one, and takes u p very little space.

NVe claiml. The combination and arrangement of the channeled guidearm F and its adjusting screws with the dies A B and their stationary and movable arms O D, applied together substantially as specified.

2. The arrangement of the elevating-screw a of the movable die-arm-viz., in the guidearm combined and arranged with the stationary and movable arms of the two dies, as set forth.

3. The arrangement of the sheet-receiving recess or space Gr with the guide-arm, the dies, and their supporting-arms, arranged and combined substantially as specified.

JOHN C. MERRIAM. WILLIAM N. WEEDEN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, GEORGE ANDREWS. 

